xdissent/ievms — Issue #39: Can some files be deleted?
Author: justinfrench
Created: 2011-10-26 05:55:42+00:00
State: open

After installation, I have some files in `~/VirtualBox VMs` and these files in `~/.ievms/vhd`:

```
~/.ievms/vhd $ ls -al IE7/
total 36275648
drwxr-xr-x 10 justin staff 340B 26 Oct 16:08 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 justin staff 102B 26 Oct 16:48 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 justin staff 13G 26 Oct 16:08 Windows Vista.vhd
-rw-r--r-- 1 justin staff 13K 11 May 11:49 Windows Vista.vmc
-rw-r--r-- 1 justin staff 700M 26 Oct 14:13 Windows_Vista_IE7.part01.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 justin staff 700M 26 Oct 14:34 Windows_Vista_IE7.part02.rar
-rw-r--r-- 1 justin staff 700M 26 Oct 14:59 Windows_Vista_IE7.part03.rar
-rw-r--r-- 1 justin staff 700M 26 Oct 15:21 Windows_Vista_IE7.part04.rar
-rw-r--r-- 1 justin staff 700M 26 Oct 15:41 Windows_Vista_IE7.part05.rar
-rw-r--r-- 1 justin staff 679M 26 Oct 16:00 Windows_Vista_IE7.part06.rar
```

I'm wondering...

a) can I safely delete or archive elsewhere the .rar files (and anything else?)
b) could ievms automatically delete these as part of a clean-up process post-install

I'm on an SSD, so 4.2GB of space is worth trying to save, especially multiplied across IE7, IE8, IE9.